A Halich Karaim translation of Hebrew biblical texts

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1 Turcologica 98 A Halich Karaim translation of Hebrew biblical texts Bearbeitet von Zsuzsanna Olach 1., Auflage Buch. XV, 433 S. Hardcover ISBN Format (B x L): 17 x 24 cm Gewicht: 1000 g Weitere Fachgebiete > Literatur, Sprache > Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft > Übersetzungswissenschaft, Dolmetschen Zu Inhaltsverzeichnis schnell und portofrei erhältlich bei Die Online-Fachbuchhandlung beck-shop.de ist spezialisiert auf Fachbücher, insbesondere Recht, Steuern und Wirtschaft. Im Sortiment finden Sie alle Medien (Bücher, Zeitschriften, CDs, ebooks, etc.) aller Verlage. Ergänzt wird das Programm durch Services wie Neuerscheinungsdienst oder Zusammenstellungen von Büchern zu Sonderpreisen. Der Shop führt mehr als 8 Millionen Produkte.

2 TURCOLOGICA Herausgegeben von Lars Johanson Band Harrassowitz Verlag Wiesbaden

3 Zsuzsanna Olach A Halich Karaim translation of Hebrew biblical texts 2013 Harrassowitz Verlag Wiesbaden

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5 Contents List of tables... XII Abbreviations... XIII Preface... XVI 1. Introduction On the Karaim language The faith of the Karaims The aims of this study Karaim literacy Previous research on Halich Karaim Karaim Bible translations Previous research on Karaim Bible translations Karaim Bible translations: printed editions and manuscripts Our data: The Halich Karaim Bible translation (HKB) Examples Notations Transliteration of the corpus General remarks Transliteration of vowels Transliteration of consonants Principles of the Simplified Interpretative Transliteration Simplified Interpretative Transliteration of vowels Simplified Interpretative Transliteration of consonants Traditions of translation Types of Bible translations Code Copying The Basic Code The scope of our analysis The Karaim language of the translation Nominals Nouns Gender: grammatical and biological Turkic characteristics of the corpus Copies of foreign markers of female items in HKB Number Turkic characteristics in plural forms of nouns and number agreement in HKB Copies of non-turkic characteristics in the use of numbers... 58

6 VIII Contents Global copies of Hebrew nouns containing a plural marker Copies of combinational features Definiteness Copies from Biblical Hebrew relating to definiteness Selective copying of the Hebrew definite article Case marking Case markers: Turkic characteristics Hebrew influence on case marking Selective copying of the combinational properties of the Hebrew direct object marker et Selective copying of combinational properties of Hebrew prepositions Translational equivalents of the Biblical Hebrew combined et + ha- forms Hebrew influence on the selection of case markers Postpositions Turkic characteristics of postpositional phrases Hebrew characteristics of postpositional phrases Copied word order properties in postpositional phrases Hebrew influence on the use of postposition civre around Hebrew influence on the double use of postposition derived from ara space betwen Genitive constructions and compounds Turkic characteristics of genitive constructions and compounds Copied features in renderings of Biblical Hebrew construct state constructions Copying the word order of the Hebrew construct state Frequential copying in the case of genitive constructions Pronouns Turkic features of demonstrative and personal pronouns Non-Turkic features of the pronouns Copied syntactic features: word order properties Semantic and combinational copying of the deictic force of the Hebrew demonstrative pronouns Frequential copying: frequent use of pronouns Copying of the occurrences of the ellipsis in the Hebrew texts Adjectives Turkic characteristics of adjectives and their Turkic usage The non-turkic characteristics of adjectival expressions in HKB Copied syntactic features: The Hebrew order of adjective and noun The order of elements in predicative adjectives The order of elements in comparison Copied agreement features

7 Contents IX Agreement in definiteness Case agreement Agreement in number Numerals Turkic features of the numerals in HKB Non-Turkic characteristics of the numeral system in HKB Copied agreement features Copied syntactic features Split numerals and the use of DA and Agreement in split numerals The use of ol the in numeric expressions Semantic copies Verbs Turkic features of the verb system Copies from Biblical Hebrew Global copies Copied combinational features Copying of number agreement between subject and verb Honorific use of the plural Composite subject Question of plurality when the subject contains bar all Hebrew influence on case government Literal translation of the paronomastic use of the Biblical Hebrew infinitive absolute Selectional copies of semantic properties of Hebrew verbal expressions Syntax Syntactic features of Bible translations Order of clauses and phrases Sentence length Reference disambiguation and tracking Transition marking Information structure Copying of sentence types Interrogations Turkic characteristics of interrogation Copied Hebrew features of interrogation Selective copying: the semantic and combinational properties of Biblical Hebrew hálö copied into Halich Karaim Syntactic copying: rendering of Hebrew double or triple questions Selective copying: the use of demonstrative pronouns in interrogative forms copied from Biblical Hebrew

8 X Contents Rendering of Hebrew oaths and wishes Translation of Biblical Hebrew formal wishes Translation of Biblical Hebrew negative oath with im Subordination and coordination Lexicon Lexical and semantic properties of Bible translations Concordance of Hebrew lexical items Rendering of Biblical Hebrew key terms and concepts Rendering of Biblical Hebrew idioms Copying of Hebrew lexical elements Conclusions Typological features of the translation Results of the comparison of the translations in different Karaim varieties Common properties Individual patterns References Appendix Facsimile... 43